Developer Support

Advocacy and Innovation

Azure - Developer Support

Azure Maps Simplified

August 24, 2018 Aug 24, 2018 08/24/18
Developer Support
Azure Maps are fascinating to me and also very useful in an ever increasing IoT world to track/transport goods, monitor traffic patterns for delivery routes and many other applications. What I want to display is the absolute minimum one would need to create their very first Azure Map.

Accessing Certificates in Service Fabric Hosted Windows Containers

July 26, 2018 Jul 26, 2018 07/26/18
Developer Support
In this post, senior consultant Megan Meyer demonstrates how you can utilize SetupEntryPoint scripts to manage acquiring certificates and making them available to your Service Fabric hosted container. This blog covers an approach that allows greater control and flexibility at the time of service setup so that you can have runtime access to certificate files within your container.

How to fetch a user’s profile from Azure Active Directory using PowerShell

June 25, 2018 Jun 25, 2018 06/25/18
Developer Support
In this post, App Dev Manager Chev Bryan demonstrates how to fetch a user’s profile from AAD using PowerShell.On my recent journeys helping customers migrate from TFS to VSTS; one of the most common obstacle is verifying that users marked for active import to VSTS have matching AAD records. Thankfully there is a fairly streamlined way to do ...

Remote debugging Azure App Services

June 18, 2018 Jun 18, 2018 06/18/18
Developer Support
This post is provided by App Dev Managers Chris Westbrook and Susan Leighton who walk us through remote debugging a web application deployed as an Azure App Service. In this post, we're going to look at debugging web apps deployed to an Azure App Service. Customers are sometimes apprehensive about using cloud PaaS services, based upon ...

Proactively Plan for your Critical Event in Azure with Enhanced Support and Engineering Services

June 16, 2018 Jun 16, 2018 06/16/18
Developer Support
In this post, Principal Consultant Jon Guerin lays out the benefits of Azure Event Management (AEM) and how to get started with the program.Deploying an application to Azure in support of a high-profile business event can have many advantages. But failing to assess up front potential gaps that could negatively affect performance and ...